How to Thrive When Customers Are in Control

by Patricia B. Seybold

Customers are taking control of industries and reshaping them from the outside in. While some characterize the changes taking place as the New Economy, the Internet economy, or the knowledge economy, Seybold, the bestselling author of the book Customers.com, simply calls it the “customer economy.” To survive in this customer economy, you need to respond to customer demands for changes in the way you design and deliver products and services. Seybold shows you how.

Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence

by Chris Zook

According to Zook and Allen, most growth strategies fail to deliver value because they wrongly diversify from the core business. Based on a ten-year Bain & Company study of 2,000 companies in a variety of industries, Profit from the Core will teach you how to grow your company by building market power in a well-defined core.